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By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

Asthma is a recurrent condition, affecting the airways in the lungs. It is characterised by coughing, wheezing (whistling sound in the chest), and difficulty in breathing. What causes asthma in children? Asthma is an allergic condition that tends to occur in families. That is, it is hereditary. Several members of one family may have asthma…

Baby Nadya – My special gift from God

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

A BabyLove Network Interview with Adam Hussein Adam, Independent Social Development Consultant. BLN: Tell us a little about your daughter? Adam: My daughter’s name is Nadya. She turned 7 years old on 31st March this year. She’s really special and is the most precious thing that ever happened to me. My life has never and…

Overcoming disability to shine – The Glow Stick Experience

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

Have you ever seen a glow stick? A glow stick is a plastic tube with a glass vial inside it. For the glow stick to work, you have to snap the stick. When you snap the stick you break the glass vial inside. This action allows the chemicals that are inside the glass to react…

HIV from mum to child

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

Safeguarding your baby It is a tragedy of immense proportions that thousands of unborn babies-about 40,000 to 50,000-risk being infected with HIV by their mothers every year, according to the Kenya National Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Programme (NASCOP). The sad thing is that the unborn victims are as innocent as many mothers; most…

Gifted child – What to do with her

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

Nobel laureate and author Pearl S. Buck once said, ‘The truly creative minds in any field is no more than this: ….He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.’ This is one way of identifying a gifted child, who is not…

Breaking the Silence Around Adoption

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

“Are you not afraid that your adoption activism will stigmatize your child? What if she grows up and hates the fact that you are so outspoken about this, while she’d rather people not know she’s adopted?” A close (and pro-adoption) friend asked me this the other day, in the context of a longer conversation, and…

Childhood Diabetes

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

Did you know that children also get diabetes? Childhood diabetes is referred to as Type 1 diabetes. The body has an organ called the pancreas that produces insulin. Insulin is a hormone that ensures that glucose produced from the digested food we eat gets into the cells for growth and energy. When there is a…

Autism awareness and acceptance -Jaki Mathaga

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

A friend recently reminded me of her first encounter with me. We were having a parent training session on autism, about how to continue the learning process at home. The discussion diverted to autism acceptance as the key to seeing change in your child, when she remembered what I was like 5 years ago. She…

Childless? Letting another woman get pregnant on your behalf

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

Wandia and John had been trying to bear a child countless times, unsuccessfully. They had listened to every old woman’s folktales on fertility enhancement and would have visited a local mganga were it not for the good Lord forbidding it in His word. Then once, after months of drinking beetroot and amaranth—she believes that was…

Epilepsy – The seizures can be controlled

By Babylove Network | August 8, 2021

Different and unique conditions afflict us as human beings. Some are difficult to grasp, especially when they are lifelong conditions that require complete awareness and specifities to lifestyle change. One example is epilepsy. As parents, we must aquire and understand this neurological condition when it affects our children, and instill tools and mechanisms to cope with the fits and seizures from as early as is plausible, in their lives.

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